...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.
R. H. TawneyIt is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
R. H. TawneyBankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
R. H. Tawney